INSTITUTE FOR DOCTORAL STUDIES
IN THE VISUAL ARTS
Join the Humanity Rising Panel discussion Presenters: Kathleen Riley, Musician, Researcher, Branch Director for Performing Arts at Awake TV Network; George Smith, Founder and President of IDSVA; Simonetta Moro, Director and Vice President for Academic Affairs at IDSVA; and IDSVA students, Mary Mazurek, George Orwel, and Zoma Wallace
Four IDSVA PhD candidates discuss their dissertation work in progress Date: Saturday, November 21, 12-2pm EST Format: Zoom (register to receive the link) Moderator: Dr. Kalia Brooks, IDSVA alumna 2017
Join the Driskell Center for a talk with Gabriel Reed about Driskell's ceramic works. Date: November 19, 2020 Time: 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM EST Format: This is a virtual Zoom event. Please register here, or through the Driskell Center's portal: https://driskellcenter.umd.edu/events/driskells-ceramics-gabriel-reed
UAAC, SECAC, and more!
Marvin R. Milián, M.A., is an educator who seeks to innovate the classroom with the ambition to change the way art history is taught.
We are pleased to have Professor Grant Farred join IDSVA for the fall lecture series “Singularly Opaque: The Philosophy of Martin Heidegger and Ornette Coleman.”
Congratulations to Dr. Toni-Lee Sangastiano on her new job! Dr. Sangastiano has been appointed as a Digital Media Specialist & Full-time Assistant Professor of the Practice at Georgetown University, Department of Art and Art History.
These deeply troubling and indeed shocking and frightening times leave many of us wondering: how did we go so wrong and what can we do to make these unjust, unkind, and horrible truths come right? To see fellow human beings murdered for the color of their skin, to see others trampled in the streets as they gather in outrage—we can only wish these images had no part in our daily life. But the hard truth they represent is common, all too common.